![]() ![]() Like I mentioned earlier, the plot seems to drag the film instead of keep the ball going. Clearly, Marshall and his team spared no expense to make the film such a feast for the senses. There’s cannibalism, high-speed chases with people propelling themselves into other vehicles, gladiator fights, and so on. As soon as the crew are captured by a bunch of punks that seemed to have walked off the set of “Mad Max”, things escalate from there. Going back to what makes this such as high-octane film is how it seems to not give a damn, even if the plot struggles to keep up (more on that later). Nevertheless, as she is our main protagonist, there are plenty of action setpieces that involve her not taking shit from anybody. Like, she makes some very questionable decisions that other characters call out. I liked that she wasn’t flawlessly badass, though. Rhona Mitra is pretty badass in the role of Eden. A freaking bunny gets mowed down by robot turrets for simply deciding to mosey around the wall! Cue that video of the car alarm girl playing “The Last of Us”. Akin to Paul Verhoeven’s dystopian satirical films, Neil Marshall and his team seem to gleefully spend each opportunity to let the gore effects shine wisely. I see the term “high-octane” being thrown around when it comes to describing action movies or thrillers but I thought it was pretty damn justified with this movie. Scrambling for a cure, government officials send out Eden Sinclair and a team of specialists to salvage a cure outside the wall. The virus remains on the down-low for more than two decades before it resurfaces inside the quarantined country. ![]() Scotland, the area most affected, is walled out from the rest of GB. In the “present day” of 2008, an outbreak of what’s known as the “Reaper Virus” tears Great Britain apart. Let’s talk about it!ĭirected by Neil Marshall, “Doomsday” is a 2008 post-apocalyptic dystopian action-horror-thriller. "More than any other film." He remains fond of his bloody, often crazy, and surprisingly funny action movie, which features an exceptionally cool hero who gets some standout scenes with the late Bob Hoskins.I’ve been craving dystopian content lately and considering the glut of pandemic thrillers finding a new audience because of our recent situation, I thought it appropriate to dive into director Neil Marshall’s (“The Descent”, “Dog Soldiers”) “Doomsday”. "I learned a s*** load from the failure of this film," the writer-director said. He definitely hasn't forgotten the importance of Doomsday, though. Marshall joked maybe he could scrap together bread crumbs from Europe to make the sequel, but he's long since moved on. Beyond that, I haven't really thought about it. There's a border town, and she discovers her mom is still alive and running her own kind of gang there. The story was going to involve our hero character, Sinclair, ending up in Newcastle upon Tyne, my hometown. I thought, Oh, I'll save that for the next one. ![]() There was a sequence involving helicopter gunships attacking the castle, which I knew I couldn't properly do for this one. According to Marshall, Doomsday 2 would've revealed Sinclair's mother survived the virus: I had an idea for a part two.
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